Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Games. But there he was, laid out by a freak accident six weeks ago, just as he was getting ready to begin his campaign for the Democratic senatorial nomination from Ohio. Glenn slipped on a throw rug, while trying to hoist a mirror back onto its tracks in the bathroom of his Columbus apartment, and cracked the left side of his head against the bathtub. The blow injured his inner ear, disrupting the vital apparatus that governs coordination, equilibrium and balance (see MEDICINE). Glenn had hoped that he would recover in time to resign from the Marines and wage...
...ride to Manhattan to see The Diary of Anne Frank. "I remember thinking that I could go up on the stage and play any role without any trouble at all," she says. After school at home, she used to smoke in the bathroom and do cigarette commercials into the mirror, but she never bothered to go out for school plays. "Why go out for an amateurish high school production when you can do the real thing...
Stars are so far away that even in the biggest telescopes they never show up as anything more than mere points of light. The only direct means of measuring them is with an interferometer: an instrument that collects the light from a star in two different mirrors a short distance apart, then feeds the two beams into the same telescope. Despite the star's enormous distance, light from each of its edges must travel a slightly different distance to reach one mirror than to reach the other. This tiny variation causes the light waves in the two beams...
With the help of modern electronics, Australian and British astronomers at the University of Sydney have managed to extend their star measurements by using a pair of 22-ft. parabolic mirrors. There is no need for the mirrors to be ground carefully enough to bring star light to the precise optical focus that is required by a standard telescope. All that is necessary is that they feed the light into photomultiplier tubes that turn it into electric current. Each mirror is made of 250 small hexagonal mirrors, good enough for the purpose and a great deal cheaper than the single...
...open in Southampton this May and a Paris outlet planned for next year. Hanson owns a house in Beverly Hills and a cream-colored Rolls-Royce. But best of all he likes his office. For there, in an upstairs crow's nest overlooking a strategically trained 15-ft. mirror below, Jack Hanson is master of all he surveys, king of the castle, lord of the manor, and the busiest peeper since...